... (1475-1564), they would notice the high esteem in which the human body was portrayed. The sculpture almost appears to be a person itself, so real, proportionate, and beautiful that it is uncanny to fathom that it is an interpretation by an artist. The pride and appreciation exhibited in the work of art for the human physique demonstrated the humanistic ideas of the Renaissance. Humanism was not only a ... urged others to awaken from the darkness "of the Middle Ages and move forward out of "the slumber of forgetfulness into the pure radiance of the past" (Humanism 1). Scholars began to d...

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